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rbm.co.za

Richards Bay Minerals

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

27 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

258 ms

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About Website

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Richards Bay Minerals (RBM) is a subsidiary of Rio Tinto in South Africa. We produce ilmenite from mineral sand deposits. Rio Tinto’s shareholding is 74 per cent. Discover more about Richards Bay Mine...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rbm.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 27 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rbm.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

rbm.co.za

27 ms

richards-bay-minerals-4642.aspx

617 ms

preload.js

54 ms

main.css

111 ms

jquery.min.js

30 ms

Our browser made a total of 91 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Rbm.co.za, 57% (52 requests) were made to Riotinto.com and 12% (11 requests) were made to Farm9.staticflickr.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Coapi.riotinto.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (51%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Rbm.co.za main page is 2.2 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 837.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 70.0 kB

  • Original 84.1 kB
  • After minification 64.1 kB
  • After compression 14.2 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 20.1 kB, which is 24% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 70.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 19.7 kB

  • Original 837.3 kB
  • After minification 817.6 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Rbm images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 638.6 kB

  • Original 824.4 kB
  • After minification 608.2 kB
  • After compression 185.9 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 638.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 377.2 kB

  • Original 427.3 kB
  • After minification 337.3 kB
  • After compression 50.0 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Rbm.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 377.2 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 45 (52%)

Requests Now

87

After Optimization

42

The browser has sent 87 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rbm. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

rbm.co.za SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Rbm.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Rbm.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Rbm. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: